Deep Influence of China's Rural Primary Schools' Merger since the End of 1990s

Rural primary schools are very meaningful for rural development and reformation.Though China's large-scale mergers of the rural primary and secondary schools since the end of 1990s has scale effects in finance and it is good to improve modern school-running level,there may exist such phenomena as rural elite's being away from the rural environment,doing harm to rural children' health,weakening recycling capacity of rural culture and ignoring rural schools' role in political civilization.Therefore,it is necessary to get rid of one-sided pursuit of scale's negative influences in running a school.Based on the premise that students in rural areas could accept higher quality of compulsory education,the rural schools should be maintained as many as possible.